The Connoisseur. A Magazine for Collectors (Illustrated). by Anon

London: Otto, 1903. Twelve issues (complete).  Large quarto (28 cm), pictorial wraps.  Each issue amounts to perhaps 200 pp. of text and pictures onquality coated paper, and the contents typically consisted of nine or ten articles by experts and a half dozen full-page plates, some in colour, with at least one suitable for framing.  The December issue, for example, carries articles on the Goya tapestries, the Bellarmine jug, the art of the locksmith, Thomas Chippendale, the Countess of Blessington, the Hatfield House collection, two pictures by Filippo and Filippino Lippi, Tom Thumb, the Wedgwood collection at Nottingham Castle, lace making in Spain and Portugal; plates include the Virgin and Child by Girolamo, the Cries of Paris by Huel, Almeida by Ward, Cupid’s Hunting Fields by Burne-Jones, Eliza Katherine Crawley by William Charles Ross, and the Fair by Batrolozzi. The covers’ yapp edges are subject to flaking where they overlap the text block, and sometimes the fairly heavy coated paper of the text breaks free from the soft covers. Each issue, however, is complete despite some tatters and the contents, including many intext illustrations and adverts, are especially bright and clean.